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BDM Academy is a professional and innovative training firm which has been designed to primarily focus on educating and training Business Development Managers within the Property Management Industry.

Director Tara Bradbury is a Licensed Real Estate Agent with more than 10 years experience and an explosive passion for Business Development.

Tara Bradbury BIO (Mentor AUS & NZ)

Tara Bradbury is the Director of the highly recognised consultancy and coaching business BDM Academy, specialising in business development and rent roll growth training services throughout Australasia.

Tara is dynamic, highly motivated and has an explosive passion for Business Development. She has developed a reputation for being the growth expert for individuals and businesses with her online and department training packages.

Tara’s major accomplishments include successfully securing 268 listings in one financial year and signing 30 new rental listings in one month. She is the author of, “Real Estate Business Development - Grow your Rent Roll” and regularly performs keynote presentations for many of the leading industry groups throughout Australasia.

It is often assumed that the roll of a BDM is to simply sign new landlords. From her experience, Tara can assure you it's much more than that. A successful BDM needs to be sales minded, able to establish and maintain relationships with landlords and referral sources whilst understanding the vision of the Agency and providing direction for the entire Property Management Department.

Tara’s vast wealth of knowledge in Business Growth is sure to interest Real Estate Principals who are looking to grow their most valuable asset and income stream, their Rental Roll.

Kasey McDonald BIO (Mentor USA, AUS & NZ)

In the property industry, Kasey is synonymous with Property Management excellence. After starting her real estate career in the late 1990's, Kasey has gone on to become one of the most highly regarded Property Management Consultants in South-East Queensland. With a reputation built on professionalism and bottom-line results, she is trained in Best Practice Systems and can revolutionise and streamline internal property management procedures to encourage steady growth and better profitability.

In her time as a National Training and Management Consultant, Kasey has introduced better practices, training and system implementations to more than 100 real estate offices around the country. Her ongoing support, training, auditing and re-structuring strategies promote increases to bottom-line profits and efficiencies in poorly performing offices. From her experience as a real estate business owner, Kasey has a thorough understanding of the key operations for any successful real estate business. From administration procedures and business audits through to HR management and Business Development, she has the experience and results to equip business owners with the tools they need to efficiently run their real estate business for better future profitability.

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I hear so many BDMs say, “I wish I just had more time” and “if only I just had an extra couple of hours in my day I would achieve so much more”.

The funny thing about the phrase time management is that you can't really manage time. However what you can do is manage yourself and the activities you carry out on a daily basis. It will never matter how organised you are because there are only ever going to be 24 hours in a day. This is why it is so important to have an Ideal Week (see below) in place to make sure you are 100 per cent accountable for where you spend your time.